Hello all, just putting this sort of journal entry out here for accountability purposes. Let it be known I'm done with masturbation and orgasm for a very long time, and porn ideally forever.
As a virgin with historically little motivation to get out there, I realized recently how affected I am by porn. I don't see girls the way I want to - just as fap material, objects to pull up on the computer for sexual release and to use that long-ingrained dopamine pathway. Approximately a week ago (I didn't remember the exact date) I stopped porn, masturbation, and orgasm and I am determined to hold out for a year at the very least. I want to undo the severely misguided brain wiring I have put myself through since I first searched up porn when I was 12, and hopefully learn to have healthy sexually stimulating experiences exclusively in real life! From my research it could be many months before tangible changes occur, and I may want to go past my original goal for good measure. And once it's been at least that 1 year and I have evidence that I'm fully "rebooted" I will reintroduce myself to masturbation, but without artificial stimulation - at most good old imagination involving real, living human beings - because it's healthy and natural when done the right way, as I understand it.
P.S. I would greatly appreciate any tips or advice you guys can offer, or input regarding my strategy/philosophy.
Thanks for reading.
As a virgin with historically little motivation to get out there, I realized recently how affected I am by porn. I don't see girls the way I want to - just as fap material, objects to pull up on the computer for sexual release and to use that long-ingrained dopamine pathway. Approximately a week ago (I didn't remember the exact date) I stopped porn, masturbation, and orgasm and I am determined to hold out for a year at the very least. I want to undo the severely misguided brain wiring I have put myself through since I first searched up porn when I was 12, and hopefully learn to have healthy sexually stimulating experiences exclusively in real life! From my research it could be many months before tangible changes occur, and I may want to go past my original goal for good measure. And once it's been at least that 1 year and I have evidence that I'm fully "rebooted" I will reintroduce myself to masturbation, but without artificial stimulation - at most good old imagination involving real, living human beings - because it's healthy and natural when done the right way, as I understand it.
P.S. I would greatly appreciate any tips or advice you guys can offer, or input regarding my strategy/philosophy.
Thanks for reading.